Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

Is this the first Rider of the Reiwa era... Zero-One?

It actually looks quite convincing.

"Then I'm attacking, Mr. Yan Ming!"

"please."

Upon sensing Yan Ming's choice of words, Dian Si momentarily had the illusion that the other party was fooling him.

Don't underestimate me!

Dian Si directly extended the weapon in his hand.

"Blade Rise!"

Raising his briefcase weapon, which had transformed into a sword, Dian Si strode forward and stood directly in front of Yan Ming.

A sword, wreathed in yellow light, fell down.

Faced with this attack, Yan Ming simply shifted his body to the side to dodge it.

Dian Si paused for a moment, then brandished his sword again, launching a series of enhanced slashes carrying light particles at Yan Ming.

Yan Ming didn't even swing his sword.

He simply gripped the Time Limit Sword, dodging Dian Si's attacks while effortlessly shifting his position behind him to a more open area.

Gates sat in the open space, drinking water and watching the two test each other.

"Two rookie knights, fresh out of school, talking about testing each other? That's hilarious! They're clearly just a bunch of half-baked amateurs..."

"I advise you not to underestimate my Demon King, Gates-kun."

"You mean... huh?!"

Gates instinctively responded, then turned around in a panic and saw Wozniak sitting down next to him, also with a glass of water, watching the show.

"When did you get here?!"

"Could you please not make such a fuss? It's not good to disturb the children who are still sleeping."

Gates and Wozniak continued their usual argument, while the contest between Yan Ming and Dian Si continued.

The battle... no, it wasn't even a fair fight.

Dian Si knew very well that Yan Ming was very strong, but he did not expect that the other party could be this strong.

Kamen Rider Zero-One should be the kind of highly mobile rider who specializes in jumping ability and speed.

However, when facing someone like Yan Ming, Dian Si felt that his advantages were basically useless.

He would sometimes leap out of a range of twenty meters and then strike Yan Ming with a downward slash, or try to ambush him at extreme speed where Yan Ming could not catch him.

But he easily defused all of these problems.

Moreover, Yan Ming used the same basic form as himself throughout the entire process, and didn't even use the sword a few times.

When he wields his sword, it is undoubtedly not a time when he is completely suppressed by his opponent.

For example, right now.

"Full Charge! Kaban Strash!"

With the added power amplified, Dian Si's speed and strikes were enhanced, and his body transformed into a streak of light, directly attacking Yan Ming's direction.

This is a speed that is extremely difficult for ordinary people to react to.

But Yan Ming simply stood still, quietly waiting for the moment when Dian Si rushed in front of him.

Then, he raised his sword.

With the sword aimed at the very tip of Dian Si's blade, in a diagonal slash, it completely neutralized his attack.

The force dissipated entirely into the air.

"—!!"

After realizing that his power had been neutralized, Dian Si instinctively thought that he would be attacked by Yan Ming.

He immediately leaped backward, instantly covering a distance of nearly fifteen meters.

"...Okay, let's switch to the next form."

"Huh? Is that enough?"

Dian Si asked again to confirm, but Yan Ming didn't speak, only nodded. It seems that the other party is indeed the kind of person who doesn't talk much.

So strong, so incredibly impressive...

Dian Si didn't understand why Yan Ming was so strong. The other party had become a knight in a shorter period of time than he had. He had at least honed his skills in one or two relatively powerful worlds before he had reached his current strength. Yet, he hadn't expected that Yan Ming wouldn't even be worth him wielding his sword!

Using those simple and weak forms is probably meaningless.

Since that's the case... Dian Si directly pulled out the key, taking out the golden key that was gleaming.

"Shining Jump!"

"That is…"

Woz, who was familiar with the history of Kamen Rider Zero-One, immediately recognized what Tōshi was holding.

Yan Ming stopped moving his hands and waited for Dian Si to finish transforming.

"Authorize! Progress!"

After the golden key was installed into the drive, an even larger locust descended along with it.

On the back of one of the locusts, there was even a smaller locust. Both locusts were enveloped in golden light particles.

Then, the golden mesh extending from the drive captured the locusts and attached them to the entire body of the heir.

The gleaming gold armor covered his entire body like lines.

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"The Rider kick increases the power by adding to Brightness!"

"Shining Hopper!"

"When I shine, darkness fades!"

"Is it Kamen Rider Zero-One's enhanced form, Shining Hopper?"

"I mean, with this shape being so bright, won't it disturb the neighbors late at night?"

Because his entire body was filled with light particles, Dian Si's entire body shimmered with a layer of golden fluorescence the moment he completed his transformation.

Yan Ming didn't say anything, he just waved his hand, signaling the other person to come over.

Dian Si then took a small step forward.

Immediately afterwards—

Everything then reached a level comparable to light.

boom--!!

Yan Ming immediately put his hands in front of him to block, but he still couldn't react to that speed.

The intense heat exploded on the sword that was blocking his chest.

Yan Ming took two steps back and then saw the figure, transformed into light, attack him from the side again.

That's a speed that human nerves and bodies simply cannot react to.

"The speed of light... no, it hasn't reached the speed of light yet, has it?"

Wozniak immediately noticed the details.

If he were to fight in this form, Dian Si could indeed fight at the speed of light.

However... that's only a relatively close performance, unlike the Shining Assault Locust, which can take the most appropriate action at the speed of light anytime, anywhere.

When fighting in the form of the Shining Locust, you must unleash your ultimate move to fight freely at the true speed of light.

Even so, that's enough.

'Even if it were Mr. Yan Ming, at the speed of light, he definitely couldn't keep up, right?'

With the help of the Knight System, Yan Ming might be able to react to his own attacks, but he would definitely not be able to detect his own speed.

The prince, who had transformed into light, stopped moving again and then moved around on the ground several times in a manner that seemed to bewitch others.

Yan Ming gripped the Time Limit Sword tightly.

At the very moment that Dian Si was about to attack him—he swung his sword with a unified effect of spirit, technique, body, and ability.

Sparks exploded.

The prince, who was hit head-on, seemed to stagger slightly.

However, this does not change the overall gap.

With power nearly five times that of the base Zero-One, he threw a punch that sent Yan Ming flying.

Gates and Wozniak couldn't help but stare intently at the scene.

Although Yan Ming was knocked away, he swung his sword in mid-air to change the airflow, allowing him to land more smoothly in a more suitable posture.

"So that's how it is. This is Zero-One?"

With his combined speed and power surpassing even the basic Zi-O, and with his Light Wheel at its lowest setting, he could indeed defeat Yan Ming.

"I have a general understanding."

Yan Ming threw away the sword and took out another watch face from behind him.

"Then I'll slightly increase the blank value here as well."

"D·D·D·Decade!"

"That's... the Decade Ride Watch?! That guy even got that thing?!"

With some surprise in Gates's tone, Yan Ming immediately switched to a brand new watch face.

A phantom-like dimensional body attached itself to him from both sides.

"KamenRide! Wow! Decade·Decade! Decade!"

Upon seeing Yan Ming in this state, Dian Si was slightly taken aback.

"Is that... a television set on your head?"

Yan Ming raised his hand, and several Decade cards shot towards him like darts.

Dian Si quickly dodged at top speed.

He ran all the way to a tree trunk in the distance, and then jumped down from the side of the tree trunk.

In addition to its light-speed capability, the Shining Locust possesses another ability.

That is--

Countless projected Zero-One phantoms then appeared around Yan Ming.

"Predict and quantify the enemy's attack methods, and then select the optimal option from them!"

After connecting with the satellite Zea in space, Dian Si is now able to calculate nearly 25,000 attack strategies against Yan Ming using the system.

The ability of the Shining Locust is to select the best possible option from among them.

All of this took less than 0.01 seconds.

Yan Ming seemed to be trying to attack the projection on the far right, but Dian Si couldn't help but laugh triumphantly.

The predictions over there were not to be adopted, and the direction I really needed to go... was behind Yan Ming.

Countless illusory figures created deceptive and feinting images to mislead the enemy.

They've taken the bait.

Dian Si approached Yan Ming from behind with a smug look on his face, and then raised his right leg to strike him.

He then kicked out with a force containing approximately five times the power of his base form.

then.

Dian Si's body fell straight into empty air.